{"id":568660,"date":"2023-04-10T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T03:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=568660"},"modified":"2023-04-10T09:34:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T04:04:26","slug":"air-india-buildings-high-flying-days-with-a-legacy-changeover-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-buildings-high-flying-days-with-a-legacy-changeover-in-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India building&#8217;s high-flying days with a legacy changeover in order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government is reportedly set to become the new owner of the iconic Air India building in Mumbai, and is expected to turn it into an extension of the Mantralaya (secretariate). According to news reports, AI Assets Holding Ltd, which owns the building, has \u2018in principle\u2019 agreed to the state\u2019s offer of Rs 1,600 crore. <\/p>\n<p>Located at Nariman Point, the 23-storey tower has defined the Mumbai skyline for decades. Designed by American architect John Burgee, it was completed in 1973 and instantly became one of the most recognisable buildings of Mumbai (then Bombay).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was way ahead of its time and showed the vision of JRD Tata,\u201d says Jitender Bhargava, former executive director, Air India and author of The Descent of Air India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra government is reportedly set to become the new owner of the iconic Air India building in Mumbai, and is expected to turn it into an extension of the Mantralaya (secretariate). According to news reports, AI Assets Holding Ltd, which owns the building, has \u2018in principle\u2019 agreed to the state\u2019s offer of Rs 1,600 crore. Located at Nariman Point, the 23-storey tower has defined the Mumbai skyline for decades. Designed by American architect John Burgee, it was completed in 1973 and instantly became one of the most recognisable buildings of Mumbai (then Bombay). \u201cIt was way ahead of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}